WWRS: The Forge

Welcome back to another edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show. As you’ve come to expect we’ve got a sprawling playlist that wanders through the best of what’s new and noteworthy. We kick off with the classic Heavy Metal of Generation Steel and Armored Saint, then drift into the more melodic waters of Black Veil Brides and Holy Wars. The voyage (since we seem to have tapped into a nautical theme)…

No interview in this edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show, so it’s a real “good news, bad news” situation. The bad news is that you don’t get to hear from a band or a member of the worldwide Rock and Metal community who can give us a perspective that we might not normally have. That’s why I want to interview people on the show, to show that the stereotype of the knuckle-dragging moron is completely…

This is interesting: It didn’t just happen in the US, either. Over here in the UK, suddenly there were no Rock bands on Top Of The Pops, where even The Wildhearts had made several appearances. The Friday Rock Show on Radio 1 was removed and replaced by Pete Tong and his ilk and shoved into Sunday afternoon. It was then moved to midnight on a Tuesday/Wednesday before vanishing. The Rock Shows all…

Found an article on Metal Injection that I totally agree with. Wouldn’t you just know it, though, a lot of the comments disagree. If you want to read it yourself (and you should), HERE’S THE LINK

Welcome to the latest edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show. As always, the focus remains on the music and the push to get diverse voices heard. The centrepiece of this show is an interview I did at SOS 2025 with young Manchester-based band, Dacara. Huge thanks to them for the chat. As is the tradition here, I handed them the keys to the playlist for a bit afterward. You’ll be hearing Nice Try and…

This one took a bit longer to put together than expected.  Honestly, I wanted to get it together a couple of weeks ago, but just didn’t have the spoons. Anyway… As usual, The Wyrd Ways Rock Show is about new music and forcing a woke agenda down your throats.  So a lot of the bands have women in them.  With today, as I type this, being International Women’s Day, I think that’s kind of…

Wyrd Ways Rock Show CDXXXVI features special guests Anika McRae (one of the head honchoes of City Of Counterculture) and John Marshall joining me in the studio… erm the room at work we recorded in for this edition. Both of them are more than likely to make repeat appearances. As always, there’s a strong focus on new material and up-and-coming bands, but there’s also some more experienced hands on…

This edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show marks a new chapter for the show, with a fresh theme tune replacing Rat Salad. With Black Sabbath’s retirement and the passing of Ozzy Osbourne earlier this year, it felt like the right time to make the change and usher in something new for the show. In this edition, we’re diving into a solid mix of Trad, Symphonic, and Death Metal with a bit of Folk and…

Okay, as you’ve probably noticed this edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show is running a little late. For those of you wondering where I’ve been, I’ve been dealing with some vision issues over the past few months. Things were getting pretty bad, to the point where I couldn’t read the screen on my computer properly and had to give up driving at night because I literally couldn’t see the end of the…

So it happened! Anika and Kirk pulled it off. The inaugural City Of Counterculture exhibition happened at the newly refurbished Bradford Arts Centre.  It celebrated the illustrious past with the help of those of us who remember it, and looked forward ro the future. Here’s a tiny snapshot:        

You may have noticed that things have been a bit quiet around here for a while. There’s a reason for that – I’m waiting for a cataracts operation.  Which means I can’t really see well enough to work the software I use to produce The Wyrd Ways Rock Show.  Right now, making this post is requiring me to do a lot of squinting and getting up a bit too close to the screen. Anyway, once my eyes have…

Hello and welcome to this week’s edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show. This week’s show, as well as all the usual brand spanking new music and interesting bands I’ve found while trawling social media, there’s an interview with “the sex face of Burlesque” herself, originator of Stripknot (yes, you did read that correctly!), Trixie Blue. I spoke to her about… hang on… why am I telling you? Go listen…

Before we get going with this week’s Wyrd Ways Rock Show, Porcelain Victoria (this week’s guest) asked me to pass on her apologies for misgendering Bambie Thug.  They identify as “they/them”, not “she/her” as Victoria said during the interview.  No offence meant. So I had a little bit of a fanboy moment when recording this week’s show.  I’ve been listening to Porcelain Victoria‘s podcast, Behind…

This edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show features a special guest star as part of my push to getting more diverse voices and interesting people on the show – fire performer, model, Circus freak, piercer, Paddle Mag Awards winner 2024, Sexual Freedom Awards Finalist 2025, and Alternative Awards nominee 2025, Kitty Von Crypt. As usual with guests on the show, Kitty also gets to pick some music to…

Welcome to the new edition of The Wyrd Ways Rock Show! Life got in the way again and I had a mental system crash last weekend, so that delayed everything. That’s one of the things that happens when you’re dealing with depression and anxiety. I hope that by being open with my own fight, we can normalise talking about it. That’s one of the reasons I’m teaming up with Heavy Metal Therapy for a night…

This week’s Wyrd Ways Rock Show comes at a time when our trans siblings are under attack from TERFs like that poisonous, vile woman who wrote the Harry Potter books, the UK Supreme Court and even our Health Secretary, Wes Streeting.  Please, if you are in the UK, write to your MP expressing your disgust at the way this marginalized community is being treated.  This is especially despicable from a…